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Female Voices: Life and Loss
Female Voice: Life & Loss. Our podcast is dedicated to women from all walks of life, providing a supportive and encouraging platform that addresses the various challenges they face. We aim to offer compassionate guidance, share diverse stories, and equip listeners with practical advice and resources to help them grow, heal, and thrive through every stage of their journey.
Episodes
Female Voices: Life and LossPeyton Liam | How Do You Forgive Someone Who Won't Admit They Hurt You?
Episode 19 ~ What happens when the people who were supposed to protect you become part of the pain you spend your adulthood trying to understand? And how do…
Female Voices: Life and LossShequilla Sterling | She Was Successful on Paper. So Why Was She Still Living in Survival Mode?
Episode 18 ~ She Was Successful on Paper. So Why Was She Still Living in Survival Mode? What happens when you've spent your entire life protecting everyone…
Female Voices: Life and LossRobyn Vogel | You Learned to Protect Your Heart. What Happens When You’re Ready to Open It Again?
Episode 17 ~ You Learned to Protect Your Heart. What Happens When You’re Ready to Open It Again? What if some of the qualities you are praised for, being…
Female Voices: Life and LossTeresa Reiniger | I Felt Relieved When They Died. Does That Make Me a Terrible Person?
Episode 16 ~ What happens when someone you love dies and, somewhere inside the heartbreak, you also feel relief? It is one of those grief experiences people…
Female Voices: Life and LossVictoria DiGiovanni | What Happens When Grief Becomes a Song?
Episode 15 ~What Happens When Grief Becomes a Song? What happens when someone who has spent years supporting grieving people suddenly finds herself living the…
Female Voices: Life and LossWhat Happens After: Grief, Memory, and Empathy with Diane Namm
Episode 14 ~ What Happens After: Grief, Memory, and Empathy Grief does not need to be ranked, rushed, or explained away. Sometimes what a grieving person needs…
Female Voices: Life and LossLauren Johnston | Childhood Grief, Relationship Loss & Starting Over After 60
What happens when you’ve carried loss for so long that you stop realizing just how much you’ve survived? Lauren Johnston experienced the death of her mother at…
Female Voices: Life and LossWhat to Say to Someone Who Is Grieving | Important Announcement
Episode 12 ~ What to Say to Someone Who Is Grieving | Important Announcement What if one of the most natural questions we ask after a death is also one we…
Female Voices: Life and LossSuzy McNamara | When Grief Begins Before Goodbye, Caring for a Spouse With Early-Onset Alzheimer’s
Sometimes grief begins long before someone dies. It begins when the person you love is still beside you, but the life you knew together is already changing. In…
Female Voices: Life and LossTeresa Reiniger | National Grief Awareness Day: What Grieving People Wish You Knew
What happens when grief doesn’t just change your life—but changes the way you see yourself? After a significant loss, the question may eventually shift from…
Female Voices: Life and LossTeresa Reiniger | Why Am I Grieving More Now: Why Grief Doesn’t Always Hit Hardest at the Beginning?
Episode 9 ~ What if your grief feels heavier now than it did when the loss first happened? Does that mean you’re going backward, or could something else be…
Female Voices: Life and LossTeresa Reiniger | Am I Going Crazy or Is This Grief? Hearing or Sensing a Loved One After Loss
Have you ever forgotten a familiar word, sensed your loved one nearby, or cried unexpectedly and wondered, “Am I going crazy?” You are not alone, and in many…
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Dena Woulfe | Two Coaches, One Mission: Helping Women Find Themselves Again
What happens when you have spent so many years caring for everyone else that you no longer recognize yourself? In this episode, Teresa Reiniger welcomes…
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Rebecca Bunt | Decluttering After Loss: How to Sort Through a Loved One’s Belongings
Episode 6 ~ Rebecca Bunt | Decluttering After Loss: How to Sort Through a Loved One’s Belongings In this episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa Reiniger…
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Jasmyne Cole | Legacy Is Built in the Ordinary: Grief, Faith, and Family Stories
Episode 5: Legacy Is Built in the Ordinary: Grief, Faith, and Family StoriesWhat will the people you love remember—not only about what you accomplished, but…
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Teresa | The Stories We Carry: Introducing In Memory Of… and creating space for love to continue
Episode 4 ~ The Stories We Carry: Introducing In Memory Of… and creating space for love to continueAfter someone dies, one of the quiet fears many people carry…
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Teresa Reiniger | The Losses We Don’t Always Talk About
Episode 3 ~ The Losses We Don’t Always Talk About: Understanding grief beyond death and finding language for what you’re carrying. Loss does not always arrive…
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Why Stories Heal: The Conversations That Change Us
Sometimes one honest story can reach a place that advice never could. It can give language to what we have carried quietly and remind us that we are not the…
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SIX YEARS LATER: What Loss, Healing, and Storytelling Have Taught Me | Teresa Reiniger
Episode 1 ~ SIX YEARS LATER: What Loss, Healing, and Storytelling Have Taught Me Some stories begin with a microphone. Others begin with a loss no one knows…
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Laverne Hill: Loving Through Letting Go | A Caregiver’s Journey Through, Dementia, Family & Faith
Some seasons of love require us to show up even when we are tired, overwhelmed, and grieving before the goodbye ever comes. In this heartfelt episode of Female…
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Sue Neumann: God Told Me to Write One Million Cards | Healing Through Kindness & Connection
Episode 75: God Told Me to Write One Million Cards | Healing Through Kindness & Connection What if healing wasn't found in doing more—but in slowing down…
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Dr. Camesha Hill-Carter | Healing After Divorce & Infidelity: Finding Yourself Again ( Episode 74 )
“Sometimes losing the relationship is what finally forces you to find yourself.” In this deeply emotional and vulnerable episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss…
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Laramie Cooley | “Just Listen” — Mental Health, Family Loss & Healing Conversations
Episode 73: What if the most powerful thing you could do for someone going through a difficult season… is simply listen? In this heartfelt and compassionate…
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Brittany Alberty | What My Mother Never Told Me: The Conversation Every Woman Needs (Episode 72)
“Some stories shape us through presence. Others shape us through silence.” In this deeply honest and emotional conversation, Brittany Raji Alberty joins Teresa…
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Lisa Webb on “The Unknown of the Unknown" | Growing Up After Losing Both Parents at One Year Old
Episode 71: “The Unknown of the Unknown" | Growing Up After Losing Both Parents at One Year OldWhat happens when you grieve people you can’t even remember? In…
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Donna Ben | The Quiet Weight of Grief (What I Learned Behind the Scenes)
What if the stories you quietly listen to… start changing your life? In this deeply personal Episode 70 of Female Voices, host Teresa Reiniger and co-host…
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Teresa & Wayna | What to Say (and NOT Say) to Someone Who’s Grieving ( Episode 69)
Grief doesn’t need perfect words—it needs real presence. In Episode 69 of Female Voices, hosts Teresa Reiniger and Wayna Berry dive into one of the most…
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Episode 68 ~ The Emotional Weight Women Carry and How to Release It | Alison Tindall
You’re not stuck because you’re failing… you’re stuck because you’re carrying more than you realize. In this deeply honest and transformative conversation…
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Episode 67 ~ “Financial Trauma is Real” | Terri on Healing After Divorce, Death & Life Transitions
What if grief isn’t just emotional—but financial, physical, and deeply tied to your identity? In this powerful episode of Female Voices: Life and Loss, Teresa…
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Episode 66 ~ Dena Woulfe Reveals the Hidden Weight of Grief in Your Body
What if your grief isn’t just something you feel… but something your body is carrying? In this deeply moving and eye-opening episode, Teresa is joined by…
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Episode 65 ~ Grieving the Life You Thought You'd Have with Teresa & Wayna
What if the hardest grief you carry… is the one no one else can see? In this deeply honest and emotional episode, Teresa Reiniger and Wayna Berry close out…
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Episode 64 ~ Why Am I So Anxious After Loss? With Teresa & Wayna
What if the hardest part of grief isn’t sadness… but fear? In this deeply honest conversation, Wayna Berry and Teresa Reiniger unpack a side of grief that…
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Episode 63 ~ Anticipatory grief and relief guilt. Is It Normal to Feel Both?
Can you love someone deeply… and still feel relief when they die? It’s one of the most misunderstood emotions in grief — and almost no one talks about it out…
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Episode 62 ~ Grieving Someone Who Hurt You With Wayna Berry & Teresa Reiniger
Why do we miss someone who hurt us? In this deeply honest episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, hosts LaWayna Berry and Teresa Reiniger explore one of the…
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Episode 61 ~ How to deal with grief when nothing seems to help? With Teresa and Wayna
If you’ve tried staying busy, staying strong, staying positive — and you’re still hurting — this episode is for you. In Episode 61, Teresa and Wayna begin a…
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Episode 60 ~ Story of Invisible Grief: How Patti Sauer Rebuilt Her Life After a CRPS Diagnosis
What happens when the life you built… disappears overnight? In this deeply honest and moving conversation, host Teresa Reiniger sits down with author Patti…
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Episode 59 ~ From Fiancée to Widow: Carol’s Story of Love, Loss, and Life After Sudden Death
Four months before her wedding, Carol became a widow. In November 2019, Carol’s fiancé died suddenly of a massive heart attack — just as they were preparing to…
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Episode 58 ~ No One Prepares You for This: Wayna Berry & Teresa Reiniger on Life After Child Loss
There is no pain more disorienting than losing a child—and no single “right” way to grieve. In Episode 58 of Female Voices: Life & Loss, hosts Teresa Reiniger…
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Episode 57 ~ Parenting Adult Children: Letting go, staying connected & breaking generational patterns With Wayna & Teresa
Parenting doesn’t end when your child turns 18—it simply changes. In this deeply honest and heartfelt episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, hosts Wayna Berry…
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Episode 56 ~ Grief Doesn’t Play Fair: Mon Trice Williams On Healing Beyond Survival Mode
What happens when grief arrives all at once—and refuses to follow the rules? In this deeply moving episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, host Teresa Reiniger…
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Episode 55 ~ What a Year of Listening to Women’s Stories Really Teaches You with Teresa & Wayna
What happens when two grief coaches pause to reflect on a full year of powerful stories, laughter, and healing conversations? In this special Episode 55 of…
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Episode 54 ~ “I Was Supposed to Be Two”: Healing, Grief, and Awakening with Silvia Resnik
What if everything you thought would make you happy… still left you feeling empty? In this powerful and soul-stirring episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss…
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Episode 53 ~ Grief Beyond Death: Learning Disabilities, Loss, and Becoming Resilient
Grief doesn’t only follow death—it also shows up when life turns out very different than we imagined. In this powerful Episode 53 of Female Voices: Life &…
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Episode 52 ~ The Courage to Talk About Death with Brittany Neunuebel
What if talking about death could actually bring comfort, clarity, and peace? In this deeply moving episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, host Teresa Reiniger…
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Episode 51 ~ All the Feels at Christmas: Joy, Grief & Family Chaos
Christmas isn’t always joyful — and this episode gives you permission to tell the truth about that. In this special Christmas Day episode of Female Voices…
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Episode 50 ~Grieving a Child Through the Holidays: Sara’s Story of Faith, Traditions, and Letting Go
“What does it look like to mother a child who lives only in your heart?” In this deeply moving Episode 50 of Female Voices: Life & Loss, host Teresa Reiniger…
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Episode 49 ~ Five Months in ICU, One Final Goodbye—Jenny’s Unforgettable Story of Love & Resilience
What if the moment your life shattered also became the beginning of your transformation? In this powerful and deeply moving episode, host Teresa Reiniger sits…
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Episode 48 ~ When the Healer Needs Healing: A Doctor’s Fight Against Burnout & Grief
“What happens when the strong one breaks?” In this powerful episode, Dr. Pamela Buchanan — a 20-year ER physician, burnout expert, and mental health advocate —…
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EPISODE 47 ~ How Gratitude Changes Grief: Coping, Cortisol & Cardiac Problems
“Can you really be thankful when your heart is breaking?” In this powerful Thanksgiving episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Teresa and LaWayna open up about…
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Episode 46 ~ Starting From the Bottom: Coach Tabasha on Grief, Trauma &Generational Healing
What does it look like to keep living when life hits you back-to-back with unimaginable loss? In this candid and deeply honest conversation, Teresa and Wayna…
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Episode 45 ~ Healing After Betrayal: How Lora Cheadle Reclaimed Herself and Her Marriage
What happens when the life you built suddenly feels like a lie? 💔 In this powerful conversation, hosts LaWayna Berry and Teresa Reiniger sit down with Lora…
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EPISODE 44 ~ Magaly Maldonado Lopez: The Love That Taught Her to Choose Herself
In this open and honest dialogue, Magaly opens up about the emotional rollercoaster of falling in love, losing herself in the process, and finding her way back…
Female Voices: Life and LossEpisode 43 ~ The Unseen Grief of Failed Infertility Treatments: Featuring Anna’s Story of Strength.
“What happens when the dream of motherhood never comes true?” In this deeply personal and raw episode, host Teresa Reiniger sits down with Anna Mueller, a…
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Episode 42 ~ Behind the Pink Ribbons and Candles: What Women Really Need
October isn’t just another month — it’s a season of powerful awareness. 💪🏽 In this heartfelt episode, hosts Wayna and Teresa open up about the real impact of…
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Episode 41 - "I Didn’t Beat Cancer, God Did": Danielle’s Breast Cancer Journey
Faith, Fear & Early Detection “Early detection saved my life.” In this powerful and faith-filled episode, host Wayna Berry sits down with Danielle M. Frazier…
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Episode 41 ~ "I Didn’t Beat Cancer, God Did": Danielle’s Breast Cancer Journey
Faith, Fear & Early Detection In this powerful and faith-filled episode, host Wayna Berry sits down with Danielle M. Frazier, a licensed professional counselor…
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Episode 40 ~ Andrea’s Silent Battle with Infertility, IVF, and Loss
📢 Not everything happens for a reason. In this deeply moving episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, Andrea Ali-Panzarella, physician, mother of three, and…
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Episode 39 ~ The Bittersweet Truth of Motherhood: Unspoken Journey of Loss, Bipolar and Healing with KeErica Brown
📢 What happens when joy and grief arrive at the same moment when you bring one baby home while saying goodbye to another? In this moving episode of Female…
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Episode 38 ~ 2 Losses in 2 Weeks: Stacey Johnson’s Powerful Journey of Grief, Resilience, and Empowering Others
📢 What happens when life delivers back-to-back losses, and the weight of grief collides with burnout and identity shifts? In this episode Teresa Reiniger and…
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Episode 37 ~ Autoimmune Disease Reversed Naturally: Flossie’s Incredible Healing Story
📢 From the villages of Kenya to the stages of Miss Senior Missouri, Flossie’s story is a powerful testament to resilience, faith, and transformation. In this…